Radio-Frequency Identification Enabled Inventory Management and Network Operations System and Method
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a technology of radio frequency identification and inventory management, applied in the field of inventory and network operations management, can solve the problems of inability to manage equipment inventories, low manual data entry effort, and inability to meet the needs of equipment inventories,
Inactive Publication Date: 2009-07-30
ALCATEL LUCENT SAS
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[0007]In another embodiment, the system includes: (1) an RFID reader data network having RFID readers configured to read tag identifiers from REID tags associated with equipment to be deployed to a target network and (2) a computer coupled to the RFID reader data network and the target network and configured to retrieve the tag identifiers from the RFID reader
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Unfortunately, existing inventory management systems rely to a large extent on human beings to gather their data manually.
Further, because the effort of manual data entry is relatively high, such systems tend to call for data to be gathered at relatively few points in the supply
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[0017]FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating one embodiment of forward and repair-and-return supply chains that form an environment within which an RFID enabled inventory management and network operations system and method constructed or carried out according to the principles of the invention may operate. FIG. 1 shows a forward supply chain 110, a network deployment process 120, a repair and return supply chain 130 and a network operations process 140.
[0018]The forward supply chain 110 is the channel by which equipment is introduced into a network (which for the sake of clarity will be called a “target network”) operated by a service provider. In the illustrated embodiment, the service provider is a telecommunications service provider, and the target network is a telecommunications network. Alternatively, the service provider can be of any other type.
[0019]The forward supply chain 110 encompasses a manufacturing plant 111, a supplier warehouse 112, a value-added reseller (VAR) ware...
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An inventory management and network operations system and method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader data network having RFID readers configured to read tag identifiers from RFID tags associated with equipment to be deployed to a target network and (2) a computer coupled to the RFID reader data network and the target network and configured to retrieve the tag identifiers from the RFID reader data network and network identifiers from equipment deployed in the target network, associate the tag identifiers and the network identifiers and display both the tag identifiers and the network identifiers of at least some of the equipment to a user.
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TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The invention is directed, in general, to inventory and network operations management and, more specifically, to a radio-frequency identification (RFID) enabled inventory management and network operations system and method.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Service providers, such as wireline and wireless telecommunication service providers, cable television companies and Internet service providers (ISPs), are responsible for establishing, maintaining and operating networks. As part of that effort, inventories and installations of equipment must be acquired and managed (e.g., manufactured, transported, stored, deployed, secured, monitored, tested, repaired, removed and retired). “Equipment,” as that term is used herein, includes not only cables, network-level equipment (such may be used in a central office or a “hut”) and end-user equipment (sometimes referred to as customer premises equipment, or CPE). Depending upon the type of network, end-user...
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IPC IPC(8): G06Q10/00H04Q5/22
CPCG06Q10/00
Inventor ABRAHAM, CHERIANEUBANKS, FREDLAFFITTE, WAYNE L.
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